Having 17 years to think about his coming execution might have made this guy more reflective, but it sure hasn't made him any smarter:
Michael Lambert has had 17 years to think about how his life could have been so different if a police officer had found the gun in his jacket pocket as he patted him down.
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Lambert was in the back seat of Winters' police cruiser when he pulled out the stolen gun and began shooting. He says he doesn't know why he did it.
Lambert, now 36, does know he likely wouldn't have spent much time in jail for public intoxication - even if police had found the gun.
"That's why people can have their opinion that this was by design. There's absolutely no logic in that to me. No one in their right mind is going to sit there facing a public intoxication charge or something like that and go to that extreme," he said, shaking his head again during a prison interview last week. "That's one of the aspects of this thing that makes it hard to come to terms with."
The only "what if" he can come up with for how his miserable life might have ended up better is one he lays on someone else -- if only that cop had found the gun on me. Not "if only I hadn't gotten so drunk" or "if I only hadn't taken the gun with me when I got drunk."
